Difference between Klingon and Tengwar

Hans Åberg haberg-1 at telia.com
Fri Sep 17 03:09:09 CDT 2021


> On 17 Sep 2021, at 05:12, Steve Downey <sdowney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021, 15:46 Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:
> Languages, including orthography, are not copyrightable. Movie and TV production companies regularly make copyright claims of no legal basis.
> 
> No legal basis is not the same as winning litigation without cost. 
> How much is the org willing to spend defending a lawsuit from Paramount or the Tolkien Estate. My understanding is that in the past this number has been roughly zero. 
> And that's a reasonable position. Especially since a loss on the issue would be a terrible precedent. 

Indeed, that is another issue, even though if you win you probably get your money back.





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